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30 August 2022
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Joseph Stiglitz featured in Bloomberg podcast

Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Memorial Prize laureats in Economics, was featured in Bloomberg podcast.

Surveillance: Inflation Drivers with Stiglitz

Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University Professor & Nobel Laureate, says we will eventually go through a period of disinflation.

Read the full article here.

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30 August 2022
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Bruce Western quoted in EurekAlert!

EurekAlert! reported a study by Professor Bruce Western.

Rates of solitary confinement of incarcerated people with mental illness three times higher than those without mental illness 

The study, by researchers at Boston University, Columbia University, and Harvard University, appears in Criminology, a publication of the American Society of Criminology.

Read the full article here.

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30 August 2022
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Andrew Gelman quoted in Niskanen Center

Professor Andrew Gelman was quoted in Niskanen Center.

The past and future of polling

Read the fuil article here.

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30 August 2022
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Mae Ngai quoted in NBC News

Professor Mae Ngai was quoted in NBC News

A student from China told the University of Utah her boyfriend was threatening her. She was found dead weeks later.

Colonists didn’t “bother to register what any individual looked like, because they didn’t see them as individuals.” 

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30 August 2022
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Suresh Naidu's work presented in Washington Center for Equitable Growth

Professor Suresh Naidu's worked is summarized in Washington Center for Equitable Growth

NBER Summer Institute 2022 Round-up

“‘Compensate the Losers?’ Economy-Policy Preferences and Partisan Realignment in the U.S.” by Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER, Nicolas Longuet Marx, Columbia University, and Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER, Equitable Growth grantee. 

 

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30 August 2022
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Partha Chatterjee featured in The Wire

Dr. Partha Chatterjee was featured in The Wire

Govt Has Created Climate of Fear, Intellectuals Hesitate to Express Dissent: Partha Chatterjee

Historian Partha Chatterjee discusses the Hindu rashtra, future of Indian secularism and India's emerging political culture, among other issues.

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19 July 2022
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Wilmot James published an article in Business Day

Dr. Wilmot James, the chair of the Centre for Pandemic Research, published an opionion article together with Lewis Rubin-Thompson in Business Day.

WILMOT JAMES: Strengthening the global bioeconomy to sidestep the next pandemic

Now is the time to prepare for a pathogen more deadly and infectious than Covid-19 

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19 July 2022
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Adam Tooze Quoted in The Epoch Times

Adam Tooze, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History, was quoted in the Epoch Times.

Economy Expert Explains the Impending ‘Polycrisis of Doom’

Adam Tooze, a financial crisis historian and director of the European Institute at Columbia University, warns the world is facing a “polycrisis” — a perfect storm of multiple global socioeconomic influences

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19 July 2022
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Adam Tooze interviewed in Foreign Policy

Adam Tooze, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History, was interviewed in Foreign Policy.

Biden’s Push for Lower Energy Prices Amounts to a ‘Declaration of Bankruptcy’

FP columnist Adam Tooze discusses how fluctuating oil and gas prices are changing the world as we know it.

Read the full article on Foreign Policy here.

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19 July 2022
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David Weinstein quoted in Nikkei Asia

Professor David Weinstein was quoted in Nikkei Asia.

Japan economy changed course with Abe's policy: U.S. economists

David Weinstein, professor of economics at Columbia University, told Nikkei that one of the reasons that made Abenomics' three arrows so successful was its promotion. Abe implemented the strategy with "his communication skills by stating that there were these three objectives to policy."

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